Pat Kenny
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first heard May 2025
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They felt entitlement to make a home in Britain.
And if you were to go back to the days of Enoch Powell and Rivers of Blood and all this sort of stuff, that you can see the seeds, if you like, of current difficulties being sown there.
But they go back further.
They go back to, if you like, the adventurism of the British Empire.
Is there anywhere in the world where that kind of integration, you know, ethnic, religious integration has happened successfully?
When you say allowed into the mainstream, I mean, if you like, the streams that are feeding the river of media are maybe social media streams.
And that's how it becomes amplified, because the noise on social media, it's a massive echo chamber, right?
Now, the fragmentation of British politics, smaller parties, it would seem like a good thing that you can have lots of parties representing different interests, be they the interests of the Welsh language, Scottish independence, the Green Party, even those on the right.
It means that everyone has a voice.
But in a first-past-the-post system in the United Kingdom, maybe in spite of your popularity, you have no representation in Parliament.
Now, Andy Burnham, do you have high hopes for him?
I mean, underspending on defence, overspending perhaps on welfare, what people observe in their local council areas, maybe refuse not being collected efficiently, etc.
I could go on, housing, all of those things.
But do you think Andy Burnham, with his high level of personal charisma, they say, can he deliver?
Well, that's politics for you.
A week is a long time, as we know.
I suppose the last thing we should talk about is the World Cup and with England facing a high altitude tussle with Mexico in the Azteca Stadium.
Can England bring it home?
And if they do, what impact might it have?
So you're going to be talking about the proof of innocence in your interview with Deirdre O'Shaughnessy at the Maritime Hotel in Cork on July 16th.
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